All posts tagged "mail"

Thursday, September 29, 2011

"Tracking shipped packages is fast and easy in Mac OS X Lion due to Apple Mails tight integration with WebKit. It is also one feature that Apple brought to Mac OS X from iOS that I actually like."

Handy tip if you get emails with tracking numbers. Just mouse over the number and if OS X Lion recognizes it as a tracking number, you will see a dotted line around the number. Just click on it and you will get the option to Track Shipment or Copy. If you track it, OS X will open up website with all of your tracking data. Pretty slick! They also discuss how to shut this off in Terminal, but why would you want to right?

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

"If you're overwhelmed by your e-mail, Mail's rules can help. Use these simple yet powerful tools to sift through your e-mail and apply changes to messages, filter messages into specific folders, forward them automatically, set off alarms, and more."

All good rules (using color, highlights, alarms, etc) and by using them you really can get control of your email inbox. You can also use the same things with Gmail. Just a reminder in case you find yourself spending way too much time dealing with email, there is help out there for you!

Monday, November 15, 2010

"The popular LetterBox plugin for Mac OS X's Mail app has been updated to be compatible with the release of 10.6.5."

I love this plug in for mail, as it creates a third column so the email you are previewing is off to the right instead of at the bottom of your screen. Personally, I like it better to the side. Now you can get the updated 10.6.5 plugin so you don't have to do the manual workaround that was issued when Safari was updated to 10.6.5, breaking the original LetterBox plugin.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"The latest iteration of Apple's Mail client, like the OS it accompanies, seems little changed on the surface. Its greatest improvements lie under the hood, and while not all of them entirely live up to Apple's promises, the program on the whole remains dependably excellent."

The biggest change is the built-in support for Microsoft Exchange 2007, which makes it easier to work from home if you need that kind of access. And if your business has the autoconnect feature installed on its server, you can set it up using only your email and password. There are also some other features such as faster response times and a drag-and-drop feature for organizing your sidebar. Some minor stuff but good to see they are still working on it; it's simple but I like it.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

"Apple has posted a list of questions you may have regarding the recent MobileMe Mail beta release."

The list goes over a variety of changes for MobileMe in the recent beta release, including how to sign up, what languages are supported, settings and a few other things. I have yet to try this although I did get my email telling me I was in the beta club. Have any of you tried it? If so, what are your thoughts?

If you have a MobileMe account, you can log in and in the bottom left corner click on the link to request an invitation to beta test the new mail functionality. The new version will include widescreen and compact views, mail rules to keep you organized, single click archiving, formatting toolbar, improved performance and better security with SSL. I don't use MobileMe mail much, mainly to store my receipts from Apple iTunes or the retail stores as I find Gmail works so much better.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

"With the iPad, Apple claims you can "see and touch your e-mail like never before." While that may be technically true-there's never been a 9.7-inch tablet running Apple's Mail e-mail client-if you've ever used Mail on an iPhone or iPod touch, the experience will be quite familiar. I previously took a closer look at the iPad's Safari compared to Safari on the iPhone and Mac. It's time to take that same look at the iPad's version of Mail."

Mail is more usable, particularly because Apple added features to take advantage of the increase in screen size. The preview screen, as shown above, means no more back and forth like I do on the iPhone, and with the new processor it is so much faster. Those are just a couple things that make Mail better, read the article to get the full scoop!

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

"Mail storage is the organizational conundrum of the early 21st century for many longtime Mac users. On your hard drive, you probably have an e-mail archive literally dating back to the last century, containing a few thousand irreplaceable, keep-forever messages in an ocean of saved detritus. Searching is a pain, but "reorganizing" your archive is a fate worse than death, so you've gamely stuck to your system-until now, when Google Email Uploader for Mac presented a viable alternative."

You can check out the uploader here, but note that there are a couple of "wait, read this before you do it" elements. It doesn't upload to gmail or google mail accounts, only those that are hosted by Google Apps for your domain. And it requires Mac OS 10.4 or higher. But it will upload from Apple Mail, Thunderbird and Eudora, automatically finding the archives and uploading them. If you have more than 500 messages, however, it may take some time (the author noted it would take the program about 69 hours to do it all once he started the process).

Friday, September 25, 2009

"Something seems rotten, at least for some Mac users, with the Apple Mail program. Apple support boards are lighting up with reports of email messages being downloaded multiple times."

Several threads in the Apple forums, one here and one here, outlining some dismay over the problem in the Mail program. Mainly happening to POP accounts, with some reports it is happening to IMAP accounts, that mail messages are not being deleted and re-downloading the next time you check your mail. This started with the 10.6.1 update, but I haven't seen the behavior with mine, however I do have mine set up as IMAP. Is it happening to you, or are you using the Apple Mail program? If you don't use Mail, what program do you use for your email?

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

"Macworld has stumbled on an interesting bug dealing with how your iPhone deletes (or more accurately, doesn't delete) email."

According to Macworld, if you use your iPhone for email, those messages you have deleted may not be gone. If you search for a few characters or small amount of text in mail, they say you will likely pull up a message that you thought had been previously deleted. If you tap on it, you can open it up in mail like any of your other email. If you then go back to inbox you won't find the message. And the messages supposedly aren't in the trash or the IMAP server either. The conjecture is that they aren't completely deleted from your iPhone. Something to be cautious of if you really want to make sure some of your email is gone.